7/28/2019 Wikipedia - Cheat Sheet

1/1

Wikipedia Cheat Sheetby Dave Child (DaveChild) via cheatography.com/1/cs/155/

Wikipedia Headings

==Text== Level 1 heading

===Text=== Level 2

====Text==== Level 3

Wikipedia Text Effects

''text'' Italics

'''text''' Bold

text Strikethrough

text Superscript

no ''markup'' Escape wiki markup

Wikipedia Links

[[Article Name]]

Link to article "Article Name"

[[Article Name]]s

Link with text "Article Names"

[[Article Name|Link Text]]

Link with text "Link Text"

[[Article Name#Subsection|Link Text]]

Link to subsection of article

[http://www.example.com Link Text]

Link to example.com

[[Category:Category Name]]

Add article to "Category Name"

[[:Category:Category Name]]

Link to category

Wikipedia Lists and Indents

* Text Bullet list

** Text Bullet list (second level)

# Text Numbered list

## Text Numbered list (second level)

; Item Definition list item

: Defini tion Defini tion list defini tion

: Text Indented text

:: Text Indented text (second level)

Can be nested, e.g., use #* to put a bullet list within a

numbered list.

Wikipedia Lines and Signatures

---- Horizontal Line

Line break

~~~ Signature

~~~~ Signature with timestamp

~~~~~ Timestamp

Wikipedia Allowed HTML Tags

Full list of allowed tags at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

i/Help:HTML_in_wikitext

Wikipedia Tables

{| class="name" Start table

|- Start row

! Header 1 Headings

! Header 2

|-

| row 1, cell 1 Data

| row 1, cell 2

|-

| row 2, cell 1

| row 2, cell 2

|} End Table

Wikipedia Images

[[File:img.jpg|thumb|alt=Text|Caption]]

Place an image

[[File:img.jpg|thumb|left]]

Image on the left

[[File:img.jpg|thumb|none]]

Image with no text flowing around it

Wikipedia Citations

Smith, John. 'Reference Title''. Journal, 2011, p.

1.

Inline citation.

text

Named inline citation.

Use earlier named citation.

{{citation needed}}

Citation needed.

{{reflist}}

Citations list.

More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

pedia:Citing_sources

Wikipedia Useful Pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

Help with editing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guid

elines

Wikipedia guidelines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies

Wikipedia policies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of

_Style

Wikipedia manual of style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

Guide to notability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk

Wikipedia help desk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/User:A._B./Useful_Wiki

pedia_links

Comprehensive list of useful links

Wikipedia Abbreviations and Shortcuts

WP:3RR Three Revert Rule

WP:AFC Articles For Creation

WP:AFD Articles For Deletion

WP:AGF Assume Good Faith

WP:AN Administrator's Noticeboard

WP:AP Arbitration Policy

WP:BOT Bots

WP:BCRAT Bureaucrats

WP:CIVIL Civility

WP:D Disambiguation

WP:DEL Deletion Policy

WP:NEW New user log

WP:NOR No Original Research

WP:NOT What Wikipedia is not

WP:NPA No Personal Attacks

WP:NPOV Neutral Point Of View

WP:PD Public Domain

WP:PN Patent Nonsense

WP:PROD Proposed Deletion

WP:SELF Avoid self-references

WP:V Verifiability

WP:VAND Vandalism

WP:VIE Voting Is Evil

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/User:Kjkolb/Abbr

eviations and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:

Shortcuts

Cheatographer

Dave Child (DaveChild)

cheatography.com/davechild/

www.addedbytes.com

Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet was published on 2 nd January, 2012

and was last updated on 1st February, 2012.

Sponsor

FeedbackFair, increase your conversion rate today!

Try it free!

http://www.FeedbackFair.com